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Business Movers

Wondery

History, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In the 19th Century, Samuel Cunard wins a contract to deliver mail from Britain to North America by steamship - a new technology that will make transatlantic travel faster than ever before. His company goes on to become the Cunard Line. It will carry millions of immigrants to the new world, serve in two world wars, and dominate the transatlantic passenger business - until another new technology emerges to threaten the illustrious company’s future.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can listen to business movers early and ad free right now.
0:05.0	Join Wundry Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. Wonder. It's a sunny afternoon on June 1st, 1936 on the New York Harbor waterfront.
0:30.0	A police officer named Jean stands in front of a barricaded area facing a large crowd.
0:36.0	Jean is protecting a private marina, one of the best views of the harbor in any moment now.
0:41.0	A highly anticipated site is due to arrive, the world's newest
0:45.4	and most luxurious Oceanliner RMS Queen Mary.
0:49.4	But the crowd is trying to get past Jean and onto private property for a better look.
0:54.0	Balding man is at the front, mere inches from Gene's face.
0:57.6	He tries to reason with it.
0:59.0	Now look, this area is off limits.
1:00.9	You need to go somewhere else.
1:02.4	There is nowhere else. Everywhere is full. We You need to go somewhere else. There is nowhere else.
1:03.8	Everywhere is full. We just need a place to stand and watch. No, no, no, you all need to
1:07.8	move back. These people just want to witness a piece of history officer. We're not
1:11.8	going to hurt nothing. The Queen Mary is a piece of history officer we're not going to hurt nothing. The Queen Mary is a state-of-the-art
1:15.2	passenger ship owned and operated by the British Kunard line. Crowds have filled every possible vantage
1:21.0	point in New York to witness the end of her maiden voyage.
1:24.0	But with the excitement the ship's arrival is generating,
1:27.0	Gene fears he's about to lose control of the crowd.
1:30.0	Now look, if you don't back up, I'm going to start making arrests.
1:33.0	Oh, come on, we just came to watch the ship arrive, then we'll be on our way.
1:36.5	I don't care. This is private property.
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